CHINESE ROUTED BY THE GERMAN TFGOPS. A Number of (Wmw Oil leers Men Wounded. and BATTLES NEAR SHANSI BORDER. Tbe Qcrnan Fortes Commanded by General Kettler soil the Chinese by Qeneril Liu- Tbe Chinese Driven Buck Over the Wall After Stubborn Redstancc-The Germans Storm Bastion. Berlin (By Cable). The German War Office has received the following advices from Count von Waldcrsee, dat ed Pckin, April 27: "Three engagements occurred April 23 and a fourth April 24 at the Great Wall between four columns under Gen eral Kettler and the Chinese troops un der General Lou. The Chinese were everywhere defeated, and. after a stub born resistance, were forced back over the wall, being pursued a far a Ku kuan. Our casualties were four officers wounded and three men killed and 32 wounded. The French troops were not engaged. Subsequently the following additional dispatch regarding the lour engagements was received from Count von Waldcr see : "The following reports from Pckin arrived last night, owing to the dillicul ty of comunication : "Genera! Kettler's brigade, reinforced, marched in four columns against the Great Wall. Colonel Lcdebtir's being the right wing: then those commanded by Colonel 1 lotTmeitcr, Colonel Wallnic rich and Major Iltielilcnfeis. Ledebur reached the wall April 24, after a slight engagement near llai Shan Kwan. "Hotfmcistcr drove hack the enemy April 23. On the same day 1 Icuhelenfels encountered a strong party of the enemy occupying a bastion on the heights com manding the pass. The enemy fought stubbornly in a particularly strong posi tion, which was oniy taken after eleven hour's fighting. "Huehelenfels and Lieutenant Richert were slightly wounded, and Lieutenant Drewells was severely wounded. A standard-bearer and another were killed and six men severely wounded and ten slightly wounded." FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATM. Babe Barn During the Fire Perishes With Its Mother. Houston, Texas (Special). In a fire which destroyed a livery stable and I three residences here, live persons were j burned to death Joe Copping, a florist, 1 his wife and three children. A negro j has been arrested on the charge of hav- i ing started the fire to get revenge on j Ins employer for having discharged him. In the ruins were found the bodies of the victims, among them being an in fant which had been born to Mrs. Cop ping duriijg the progress of the fire. The body was found with its mother. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hopper jumped from the burning building and both were badly injured. The lire started in a livery stable over which several families lived, and the building was a mass of flames when the firemen arrived. A crippled widow Mrs. Thompson escaped from the building, and says she saw the Copping family run back into their rooms from the hallway, and that was the last seen of them alive. NOT A CANDIDATE. Bryan Says He Would Not De Editing a Paper If He Had Further Aspirations. Lincoln, Neb. (Special). In a state ment just given publicity V. J. Bryan says in effect that he has no intention of seeking a third nomination for the presidency. Mr. Bryan's announcement is in answer to an article in an eastern paper speculating on his plans as a I political leader. Mr. Bryan said: "I am not planning for another pretiden- I tial nomination if I were I would not be editing a paper. If I ever become a ! candidate again it will be because it j seems necessary for the advancement of ! the principles to which I adhere, and that does not now seem probable. I ! shall, however, take an interest in noli- ! tics for several years yet if I live. Government Olficlal Expires. r, c , .c iv r- c- Denver Col (Special). E. S. Nettle- ton, lor the last two years connected with the Department of Agriculture in Washington as an expert on natters pertaining to irrigation, is dead at the Homeopathic Hospital in this city of heart failure. He was 69 years of age. About a week ago in La Junto. Col., Mr Xettleton over-exerted himself in running (or a train, and upon his arrival here was taken to the hospital, where he remained until his death. Schwab In Role of Philanthropist. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corporation, has made' an early start in spending a part of his large in come, presumably following in the foot steps of his preceptor, Andrew Carne gie. Mr. Schwab has just authorized the erection of a large building for the Mount Aloysius Academy, at Cresson, Pa., which will cost in the neighbor hood of $30,000. Hut Mr. Schwab has et no limit to the cost of the building. Five Men Burled Alive. Springfield, Mo. Special). Rosebud Mine, at Aurora, caved in and buried five men at a depth of 110 feet. It may be a month before they can be reached. The victims are Grant and William Shane, Elmer Biglcr, John Gilland and Fecstcr. Carnegie's Gift to New York. Albany, N. Y. (Special). Governor Odell has signed the bill which author izes New York city to accept the $5. 300,000 gift of Andrew Carnegie for a free library system Ladi.s .0 Remove Hats la Church. Readir.g, Pa. (Special). The Rev. Dr. Harcourt, of the People's Methodist Church, has issued orders that beginning next Sunday evening all ladies attending service in his church will be expected to feyiove their hats before the sermon be gins and keep them off until after the doxoloyy and benediction. Killed la a Ball Game. Madera, Cal. (Special). While prac ticing for a ball game to-day. F. K. Kirkpatrick, a young man, collided witli another player and was instantly killed. Demand Four Mors Heads. Paris (By Cable.) A despatch from Pekin states that the Ministers of Great iiritain, France, the United States, Hol land, Belgium and Italy, to wl oin the question of the punishment of provincial officials was assigned, have reported to the diplomatic body a demand for four more heads and the exile or degradation of eighty other officials. The demand was immediately sent to the Chinese plenipotentiaries. "legally Hanged." Ichez, MUs. (Special) Jake John son, colored, who killed his wife last July, was legally hanged here. SUMMARY CF THE NEWS. Domestic Joseph E. Widcncr, son of the Phila delphia traction magnate, was fatally in jured by the overturning of a coach on which he and other wealthy young men were riding. The scanng schooner Enterprise ar rived at Victoria, B. C, with the flag nt half-mast, two of her hunters having been drowned, while a third died on the vovage. Rev. Frank II. Gnnsaulus delivered the oration at the Grant anniversary celebration in Galena, III., and severely denounced the disfranchisement of the negro. The members of Harvard Alumni who object to the university granting a de gree of LL.I). to President McKinlcy mailed 7.CC0 copies of the protest to graduates. Miss Bessie Smith, daughter of F.rnan ucl Smith, who lives near Gettysburg. Pa., committed suicide by drowning her self in Kock Creek. Minister Conger said in San Francisco that he had been assured his course in China had been entirely satisfactory to the President. John Broderick. a Baltimore crook, was sentenced in Hanover, Pa., to th.; penitentiary for receiving stolen g-vil. Rev. Robert Juiien. a well-known Presbyterian minister, died at his home in liordcnt'Mvn. X. J. W. A. Thompson, colored, was fined Sioo for selling liqti or at Downing, Va.. without a license. E. II. Conger. I'll i'. el States Minister to China, accompanied by his wife, daughter and Miss Pierce, arrived at I San Francisco imm China. lie de ! dined to discuss his reported candidacy ; ior governor of Iowa. At the trial of James Callahan for kidnapping F.dward Cudahy. Jr.. in Omaha, young Cu.Iahy identified Calla ! ban as one oi his abductors, i F. G. Kell. a student at the Medical ; College oi Virginia, was arrested in I Richmond for assault on H. B. San- ford, a fellow-student. The contract for building the new Fast River bridge will be awarded to the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the lowest bidder. William Peters, colored, was arrested in Basic City. Va., on the charge of killing Lottie Fields, his sweetheart. Assistant Postmaster Charles II. Drexcl. at Tarpon Springs, Fla., was arrested for n shortage in his accounts. Only one of a party six gold-seekers in the Klondike survived the perils to which the party was subjected. Eb II. Wittar was shot and killed at Grundy, W. Va., by Thomas Bcaves. son of Judge Alexander Bcaves. Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged in I'niontown. Pa., for the murder of Wil liam Lowdon. J. Frank Condon, official court re porter, committed suicide at his home in Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Maria G. Saxton, aunt of Mrs. McKinlev, died at her home in Canton, O. Joseph H. Shepherd, for many years a clerk in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts in Virginia, was arrest ed in Richmond on a warrant sworn out by the Auditor, charging him with the misappropriation of public funds. Encouraging reports come from Cin cinnati and the lloodcd district. The rivers are beginning to recede at many plaVes. and at Cincinnati the highest stage has almost been reached. Miss Isabel Goodrich Stillman. daugh ter of Mr. James Stillman, a millionaire, and Mr. Percy A. Rockefeller, son of Mr. William Rockefeller, were married in New York. One hundred negroes left Greensboro, N. C, for the coal mines of West Vir ginia. John Costello. an old-time circus clown, died suddenly in New York. A representative of the American Missionary Association made an inves tigation which developed that the death rate among the negroes in the South is greater than among the whites. Foreign. Field Marshall von Waldcrsee reports that the mountain artillery attacked the Chinese by the Great Wall on April 23 and forced them to retire, with heavy losses, into Shan. 1. It is reported that Cardinal Rampolla has resigned the office of papal secre tary of state and that Cardinal Fcrrata will succeed him. Count Cornulier was acouitte 1 in ' '.ois, wiicic oe was irieu ior Killing ills I wife as she was leaving the house of M. Pans, where he was tried for killing his Leroux, her lawver. Germany claims that her expenses in China already exceed the amount of her indemnity claims .240. 000.000 marks. Robert S. McCormick, of Illinois, the new American Minister to Austria-Hungary, arrived ot Budapest. Masked robbers secured 30.000 francs from the American Express Company's office in Paris. Eighteen miners were killed and seven injured in a fire-damp disaster at Mons, Belgium. Austria and Mexico are about to re sume diplomatic relations, after a long separation. The will oi D'Oyly Carte, filed in London, leaves an estate of .240.817. The International Art Exposition was opened in Venice. Dr. Parker, in an address at the Con gregational Union. London, expressed sympathy with Roman Catholics under what he called the "despicable insult" indicted on them by the oath of acces sion. The London Court decided that the Swedish Count Reinhold Edward von Rosen is the rightful heir to the estate of Mrs. Bloomtield Moore. The flagship Brooklyn, with Admir able Reiney on board, arrived at Syd ney and was warmly welcomed by the crews of the other warships. Reported in Paris that Russia will supply China with .the funds to pay the indemnities and retain Manchuria as a pledge for the loan. A financial panic prevails in Japan and 20 banks in one city have suspend ed. Earthquake shocks near Rome caused a panic ainoung the people. II err Eugene Richter and others in the German Reichstag, made arguments in opposition to the building of railways in Central Africa. Fire was discovered on the British steamer Ontario, from Hull, when 3.30 miles west of Faslnet, and the steamer put back. The British West African frontier troops have defeated the powerful slave trading emirs in Xorthcrn Nigeria. The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill pass ed its second reading in the House of Commons, after a day of debate. FinauclaL LTnited States Government 4s. 1925, sold at $140 Friday, the highest price ever reached. It is said the subscriptions to the new British loan will be cut 10 10 to 15 per cent, of the' amount applied for. Negotiations are said to be in prog ress looking to the consolidation of Chicago and Eastern Illinois with the St. Louis Southwestern. The directors of the Southern Pacific have elected Alexander Miller sccre.ary. Mr. Miller is also secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. SAYS CALLAHAN ISJOT GUILTY. Jury's Verdict a Slnck to the People and Ciiir', WAS IMMEDIATELY REARRESTED. The Judge, In Discharging the Jury Without the Compliments of the Court, Said It Was Impossible tor Him to Understand How Twelve Intelligent Men Could Have Agreed on Such a Verdict Omaha. Neb. (Special). After atrial lasting a week James Callahan was de clared not guilty of any complicity in the knidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. Two other counts still exist against Callahan, and he was at once rearrested under these. There is doubt, however, whether the State will bring the rases to trial. Shortly after o o'clock the jury signi fied to Judge Baker through a bailiff that it was ready to report. A small audience of attorneys and interested per sons was wailing when the 12 men filed in. The foreman annouced that the ver dict was not guilty. The judge had evidently been expect ing another verdict and was openly dis appointed. "It js impossi!),. for me to under stand." he said, "how twelve intelli gent men could have agreed upon such a verdict after listening to the testi mony. The defendant could not have chosen more wisely if he bad been se lecting his own representatives, and the community could not have made a more unfortunate selection. "The jury is discharged without the compliments of the court and the pris inor is likewise turned loose as to this trial, I presume, to continue the crim inal practices in which you have failed to check him. I do not know what motive actuated you in reaching this decision, but I hope none of yoti will ever appear again in this jury box." The iury evidently was ill at ease dur ing this arraignment, but diil not make any response and filed rapidly from the box as soon as it was at liberty. Callahan's attorneys were not nres- I cnt. and the defendant expressed a de I sire to thank the jurors in his own be half. This the court mused to permit. He said the jury did not deserve any tnaiiks. POWEHS MAY AGREE ON $200,000,000. A Sug;esilon That China Make a Settlement Upon the Instalment Plan. Washington (Special). The foreign establishments here are receiving a number of important dispatches "relat ing to the question of indemnity and how it shall be guaranteed by a Chi nese loan or to each of the powers indi vidually. One of the dispatches coming through a Kuropean foreign office says' that Sir Robert Hart has concluded that China can pay a total of $200,000,000, and the impression is conveyed that this will be the amount agreed upon, the various claims being scaled down to this limit. Another dispatch comes from a prominent Chinese official. He makes a suggestion that when the amount of inremnity is agreed upon it will be greatly to the interests of China, as well as to the powers, if the amount pay able to each power can be made by in stalments, and not by a gross payment outright. In that Case China would be compelled to negotiate a large loan. The view prevails among officials that while this proposition is fair, it is not practical, and there is little idea that it will be favorably entertained. Other dispatches which have passed within the last few days revive the idea of having The Hague tribunal adminis ter the indemnities after the total is once agreed upon. Dr. Browning's Big Bill. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Dr. W. C. Browning, the physician who attended the late Senator C. L. Magee, and whose bill for services rendered to the Senator totals $100,000. was here in con nection with the matter. The Doctor j says many of the newspaper reports nave men sensational and claims that his fee is in no wise exorbitant for the service rendered. His attorneys say the claim will be settled without suit. The relations between the executors and Dr. Browning are cordial, and there is no thought of taking it in court. For Peace and Arbitration. Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). May Wright Sewall. representing the United States on the International Peace Com mittee of Women, has issued a call urg ing the women throughout the country to arrange for meetings in behalf of in ternational peace and arbitration, to be held May 18. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY OFFICES ROBBED IN PARIS. Paris (By Cable). Three masked burglars entered the American Express Company's office here, surprised the watchman asleep, gagged and bound him, and escaicd with 30,000 francs. The burglary was carried out most audaciously, and was evidently the work of American experts. Manager Dalliba, after going over his books, finds that 30,000 francs were taken. The manner in which the burglars piocceded indicates that they were fa miliar with the arangements of the of fice. The street door was opened with the proper key, as the lock, which is equal to a safe lock, was not scratched. An astounding feature i f the bur glary is that the policemen heard or saw Burglars Dynamite a Bank. Toledo, Ohio (Special). The bank at Pioneer, Williams county, 40 miles from here, was entered by burglars during Friday night. The vault was wrecked by dynamite and the sum of $1000 is said to be missing. There is 1:0 ciue to the robbers. Mall Carrier Arrested. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special.) Post ofiiee Inspector Keyes has reported to the department the arrest of Archibald I'ree, a Star route carrier, charged with robbing the mails at Newport, Tenn. She Ca'cimlned Them. Cincinnati (Special). Mrs. Richard Grater, wife ol a house painter, on be ing unable to keep her husband from a saloon on Ludlow avenue, went to the place with one of his calcimine buckets and a whitewash brush tnd calcimined him from head to foot in the saloon. He returned to the saloon after he had accompanied her home and changed clothing. She followed him again, and the next time calcimined the saloon keeper and his bar and its fixtures, and gave nonce that she would repeat the performance to any one selling liquor to her husbajjd. 1 MANY PEOPLE KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Great Conflagration on the Banks ol the River Mala. Frankfort (By Cable). Explosions in the Griesheun Electro - Chemical Works, where smokeless powder is manufactured, near that town, caused a conflagration which destroyed prop erty on both sides ol the River Main and the loss of many lives. It is estimated that 50 to 60 people were killed nnd over 150 injured. Many of the vistims were employes of the works. A number ol manufacturing plants were swept away. For a time the ait was filled with blazing fagots and ex ploding chemicals, the great chemical works resembling the crater of a vol cano in action. Blazing brands were carried across the river from Griesheini to the Town of Schwanhcim, and soon the latter place was in flames. The smokeless powder department ol the chemical works blew up with a con cussion that shook the surrounding country like an earthquake. Eighteen cylinders, each containing about too hundredweight of smokeless powder, were in the room where the ex plosion occurred. A company of infantry was hurried to the scene with nearly the entire Frankfort lire department. The soldiers performed excellent service in saving people and keeping the relatives of the killed and injured from risking their lives in vain efforts to save their loved ones. They also aided the firemen in preventing the flames spreading to large benzine reservoirs. The residents of Greisheim fled in terror from the town during the ex plosions, most of them coming tc Frankfort. The last explosion occurred at "..10 r. M.. and when it was ascertained that no further danger was anticipated, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their homes. It is still impossible to say definitely how numerous are the victims. ELEPHANT DROWNS TRAINER. Held lllm Under I lie Water Until He Was Dead, Then the Beast Ran Away. Peru, Ind. (Special). Henry Huff man, well-known animal trainer, with the Wallace show, met a horrible death lure, being killed by "Big Charley." a monster elephant, while the animal was bathing in the Mississinowa river. "Big Charley" wound his trunk about Keep er Huffman and hurled him far into the stream. The man was uninjured, and when he returned he said: "Wy, Char ley, I didn't think that of you: aren't you ashamed ot yourself?" The next instant Huffman was grabbed by the big elephant and thrown to the bottom of the river and held there by the fore feet of the animal. Then with a great roar the elephant ran away. Several showmen shot at him with no effect. He broke down fences and roamed about in a big field, keeping everybody at a distance. Apples loaded with strychnine were thrown near him and he ate one. An hour later he lay down and was in terrible agony. A rifle shot settled him. Big Charley weighed over three tons, and was valued at $10,000, and in his lifetime had killed four men. Keeper Huffman at different times was animal trainer in Kairmount Park, Philadel phia, and Central Park. New York. His home was at Columbus, Ohio. EXPRESS WRECKED. The Fireman Badly Injured and the En gineer Scalded. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Special). The vcstibuled Chicago flyer, leaving Detroit at 1. 10 o'clock over the Pere Marquette Western Division, was ditched at Sun field, 112 miles out. by the rails spread ing. The injured: William Gossett, Grand Rapids, fireman, internally, prob ably fatal ; Hank F'uller, engineer, scald ed, serious; J. G. Lemon, Sunficld, hand hadly cut by thrusting it through a win dow; Mrs. C. Percy and daughter, Grand Rapids, slightly. The train was going 50 miles an hour, when suddenly the engine careened and plunged into a bank, and the cars were thrown across the tracks, being torn from their trucks. The breaking of connections in the engine caused an escape of steam, which scalded Engineer Fuller. Fireman Gos sett was probably fatally hurt by being pinned under the wreck. The Emperor Is Not Afraid. Berlin (By Cable). Emperor William regards the news of the plot against his life as "Tartarem nachricht" (Tartar news), but approves the comprehensive steps now taken to forestall the alleged plotters. The Empress saw an account of the plot and immediately warned the Emperor, who joked about the matter, thus removing her disquiet. nothing of the burglars, in spite of the fact that the latter worked loudly, and that the sound of the explosions was sufficient to awaken a porter on the top story of a building across the street and cause him to descend and search his own house for intruders. The street door of the express com pany's office was also left open by the burglars for over three hours, without the police noticing it. Yet the office is located in the center of Paris and is sur rounded by business houses. John Munroe's American bank is only a few paces distant. The express company's office has a long frontage facing the opera house. It was opened about a year ago. The reading rooms are much used by Ameri can travelers. Four Men Burled Alive. Frederick, Md. (Special). Michael Kearns, Michael Coyne, two foremen, and Archer Frazier and Douglass Hicks, two colored laborers, working on the Baltimore and Ohio improve ments near Ridgville, while working on the Mt. Airy tunnel were buried alive by the earth caving in Saturday, and thus far three of their dead bodies have been recovered. The body ol Michael Kearns is still in the debris, and it is thought that several other men have been killed, as they cannot be accounted for. Unique Swindler Caught New York (Special). Whipple O. Sayles, a lawyer with an office in this city and a residence in Orange, N. ., was arrested on the charge that lie is art accomplice of Paul D. Hart, now a pris oner 111 the Tombs. Hart is charged with swindling people by representing himself as a long-lost relative and by other devices. Hart, it is alleged, would ascertain the name of a missing person and would then write to the relatives representing himself as the person and asking for money. Even after he was incarcerated in the Tombs, it U alleged. Hart has carried on this sort of a business. HEAD SEVERED BY HANGMAN'S ROPE. Unexpected Scene at Execution of Train Robber Ketchum. BODY DROPPED TO THE GROUND. Tbe Rope Broke, and the Notorious Train Robber' Head Wat Jerked Oft by the Drop-The Desperado Showl Remarkable Coolness Belore the Execution-Has Killed Many People. Clayton, N. M. (Special). Thomas E. Ketchum, alias "Black Jack," the out law who had terrorized people of the Southwest for 15 years, was hanged here for train robbery. His head was severed from the body by the rope, as if by a guillotine. The headless trunk pitched toward the spec tators and blood spattered upon those nearest the scaffold. The execution took place inside a stockade built for the occasion. There were 150 witnesses. When Ketchum mounted the scaffold a priest stood at his side, for he had consented to spirit ual attendance nt the last moment. He declined to make a speech, muttered "Good bye," then said, "Please dig my grave very deep." and as the cap was drawn over his face shouted, "Let her go!" When the drop was sprung the body shot through the trap and the head was torn from the trunk by the tremendous jerk. The body dropped to the ground quivering and bleeding. Some men groaned and others turned away unable to endure the sight. For a few seconds the body was allowed to lie halt doubled up on its right side, with blood pouring from the arteries, as the heart kept up its mechanical beating. Then the offi cers rushed down and lifted the body. Life was pronounced extinct in five minutes from the time the body dropped through the trap. It was decided that the drop of seven feet with the running noose was too great for so heavy a man as Ketchum. who weighed about 170 pounds. Sheriff Salome Garcia super intended the execution and himself sprung the trap. INSURGENTS OIVE LP ARMS. Progress of Pacification in the Philippines 25,000 Lepers. Manila (By Cable). One hundred and fifteen officers and 2157 bolomen have surrendered and sworn allegiance to the United States at Karvacan, Prov ince of South Iloicos. Major Noble, adjutant-general of the Department of the Visayas, received the surrender of Qucntin Salas and three of his officers. All the insurgents under Salas will surrender soon. It is claimed this well terminate the insurrection in the island of Panay, The Americans arc active throughout the archipelago, accelerating surrenders. The commissary investigation is pro gressing. Several important witnesses in the Reed case have left Manila. Bar ry Baldwin. Thomas Harris, Fred Ma condry and II. Schindler, prominent merchants who are supposed to possess information concerning money paid to commissary officers, are detained as witnesses under $2500 bail. Other ar rests will be made. The trial of Capt. James C. Reed, formerly depot com missary at Manila, who, as announced April 15, was arrested on the charge of participating in the commissary frauds, has been temporarily postponed. It is estimated that there are 25.000 lepers in the Philippines, and it is plan ned to isolate all of them on one island. Major Mans, the medical inspector, Captain Ahern, of the Ninth Infantry, and Captain Quartermaster Horton, comprising a board of officers appointed to select a suitable island for the pur pose, have visited Busanga, Cuillon. Cogayan, Dejolo and other islands and have made a report, but it has not yet been acted upon. BOER COMMANDO SURRENDERS. Bokburg's Men Lay Down Their Anns at Blddleburg, Transvaal. London (By Cable). A Pretoria dis patch says the force under command of Commandant Bokburg, composed of 106 men, with wagons and rifles, have surrendered at Middlcburg, Transvaal Colony. Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch to the war office under date of Pretoria, April 21, says; "Since my last report the British col umns have captured 242 prisoners, 248 rifles, some ammunition, and wagons and carts. A few men have also sur rendered." Lord Kitchener has issued a procla mation to the effect that any resident in the martial-law districts of Cape Col ony found in arms, inciting to fight, aiding the enemy or endangering by overt act the British forces will be tried by court-martial and be liable to the most severe penalties. Such persons may even be shot. Prominent Pennsylvaniaa Dead. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Col. Chill W. Hazzard, editor and proprietor of the Monongahela Republican and one of the most prominent citizens of West ern Pennsylvania, died of paralysis at his home in Monongahela, Pa. Col. Hazzard was a past supreme chancellor of the Royal Arcanum, past commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, a member of the Loyal Legion, a Knight Templar and a thirty-second degree Mason. The deceased was 62 years of age. One Killed, Two Fatally Hurt Beaver Falls, Pa. (Special). One man was killed and two fatally injured at the Pcnn Bridge Works by the fall ing of a 35-ton steel girder. James Denwiddie was killed and Martin Shields and Charles Smith fatally hurt. Denwiddie was crushed beyond recog nilin. Shields' and Smith's arms and legs were broken and they were in jured internally. Alleged Counterfeiters. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). Unit ed States Secret Service Agent Hazen has arrested George Taylor McDonnell in this city on a charge of having in his possession appliances for making coun terfeit money. It is charged that Mc Donnell has promoted a scheme to flood China and the Hawaiian Islands with counterfeit dollars made from Mexican coins. The secret service offi cials claim that McDonnell was impli cated with the Bidwells in robbing the Bank of England of $5,000,000 by means of forged checks in 1873. Railroad Bridge Washed Away. Winston-Salem, N. C. (Special). Four spans oi an iron trestle across the Yadkin River, on Mocksville and Mooreaville Railroad, was washed out by high water just after a train had passed over. Passengers and baggage will be transferred until damage is re paired. -'Chaige Scat Sclit lor SeZ.008. ' New York (Special). The recent tale of a Stock Exchange membership is ad mitted to have been at $62,000. The high est authenticated price paid hitherto is to 1,000. LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Cubans Are Satisfied. The Cuban delegation completed its labors in Washington Saturday. In the morning the delegates met Secretary loot, who escorted them to the White House, where they had a final and de cisive talk with the President. Then they paid a visit of courtesy to each of the officials whom they have met, and filially they started tor New York, homeward bound. The proceedings at the White House were interesting and important. Senor Capote acted as spokesman for the delegation. He thanked the President for the many courtesies shown them, which they ac cepted as expressions of good will to the Cuban people. Senor Capote asked the President to do something for the Cubans upon an economic line, espe cially in the matter of reciprocal trade relations. In reply the President said it was impossible to settle the economic questions until the political questions were disposed of. He told the delegates to first form their government and then they would be in a position to enter into negotiations with the United States as to trade relations. Penslons-I'ojfmasters. Maryland. Original Alfred Baker, Vale Summit, $6. Renewal James C. Mullikin, Easton, $12. Renewal and re issue, Wm. Hoffman. Baltimore. $6. Virginia. Original Lawrence Lynch. National Soldiers' Home, F.liza bcth City, $8; Henry Powell, National Soldiers' Home. F.Iizabcth City, $6. Increase John C. Stout. National Sol diers' Home, F.Iizabcth City, $12: John L. Snyder, National Soldiers' Home, Elizabeth City, $12. Mexican War survivors. Restoration and supple mentalJohn Holland, National Mili tary Home, Elizabeth City, $8. W'est Virginia. Original John S. Kecdy, Martinsbutg. $6. Increase John Holroydc, Barb.iursvillc, $H; Peter Sticeson, Laurel Iron Works, $N: Perry G. Shafer, Aarons, $10; Allen Shields. Sutton, Jio. H. W. Green has been appointed postmaster at Gcorgel, Wise county. Va., vice C. P. l.udwig, resigned. Henry Morris has been appointed a rural free delivery letter carrier at Koss villc, Baltimore county, vice Henry Levi, resigned. A postol'ticc has been established at Duet, Madison county, Va., with Marion Rosser as postmaster. Presidential Appointments. The President has just made the fol lowing appointments: State John W. Garrett. Pennsylva nia, secretary of legation at The Hague, Netherlands. Treasury Herman Ellcrman, col lector of internal revenue. District of North and South Dakota; Alfred W. Brown, appraiser of merchandise, dis trict of Boston and Charleston, Mass. Justice Earl M. Cranston, United States attorney, district of Colorado. Interior Henry Meldrum, surveyor general of Oregon; Harry D. Cham berlain, Indian agent, Crow Creek agency, South Dakota. The Dues Are Retaliatory. Inquiry'into the protest of Sir Chris topher Furncss, head of the Furncss line of steamers, that tonnage dues are charged against British vessels entering American ports, while Dutch and Dan ish vessels enter free, disclosed that such dues are imposed because the British levy a corresponding duty on American shipping under the guise of lighthouse dues. The Dewey Prize Case Argumeai. The hearing in the libel suit brought by Admiral Dewey and officers and men of his fleet for condemnation as prizes of the Spanish vessels and property captured in the battle of Manila Bay. was continued in the Court of , Admi ralty Wednesday. The day was devot ed to the arguments of Assistant At torney-General Binney for the Govern mcnt. He admited the claims in gen eral, but argued for proof as to details. There are many questions of law and fact involved. The hearing will occupy several days. Minister Buck Seriously III. A. E. Buck, of Georgia. American Minister to Japan, is seriously ill in this city. He is completing a 60 days' leave and was to have sailed for his post last Wednesday. For some time he has been ill as a result of the grip. Upon reaching Washington last Monday other complications set in, and now be is confined to his apartments and only his nurses are permitted to enter the room. Mustering Out Volunteer. General Shafter at San Francisco has notified the War Department that vol unteer regiments which recently arrived from the Philippines will be mustered out at San Francisco as follows: May 6, Thirty-ninth Infantry; May 3, Thirty-second Infantry; May to. Twenty-ninth Infantry; May 13, Twenty-sixth Infantry. No dates have been fixed for the muster out of the Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth Regiments. 186 Mlssloaarles Killed. Figures received at the State Depart ment compiled by J. W. Stevenson, di rector of the Chinese Inland Mission, show that the total number of foreign missionaries killed in China during the recent disturbances, including the chil dren, was 186. Of these 28 adults and 8 children were Amcrcans. Sampson's Claim for Prize Mon:y. Hearing was begun in the Court ol Admiralty in the suit instituted by Rear Admiral Sampson and others for prize money for vessels captured off Saniago. The arguments are along the same line as those in the Admiral Dewey pro ceedings. Baron Fava'g Farewell. ' - Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador, who will shoitly return to Italy, had a brief informal talk with the President Wednesday. Our New Possessions The transport Sedgwick sailed from San Juan with 10 Porto Rican youths, who arc coming to the United States to be educated. Commissary Sergeant John Weston, charged with complicity in the com missary frauds at Manila, has been dis honorably discharged and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Cuban Democrats will hold a mass meeting in Havana, and thoir platform will favor acceptance of the Piatt amendment and indorse the course of Governor-General Wood. Polloc, on the west coast of Minda nao Island, Philippines, was wrecked by a cyclone. The barracks of the United States troops -were destroyed. Loss, $2000. General Morales surrendered to the Americans in the Province of liuluran. Many surrenders are expected by May Cailk-s, the notorious leader of the insurgents, who declared himself the successor of Aguinaldo, narrowly es caped capture. Captain Chase, with a detachment of the Twenty-first Infant ry, surprised his camp. His adjutant general and five other officers were, taken prisoners. Major Vtlo, an insur gent officer, was killed I PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. ENTOMBED MINERS KILLED BY OAS. Bodies ot Two Victims Recovered In the Bot torn of a Heading la a Colliery Near Shamo-kin-Season ot Success lor the Pitt? burg Orchestra-Delaware Conference to Raise HOCOOO-Voung Soldier's Death. After fifteen hours of the hardc.t work, every minute of which was full ol peril, the party of rescuers, headed by Mine Inspector F.dward Brennan and1 Inside Foreman Michael Readdy. suc ceeded in driving the deadly gas out ol No. 13 breast in the Lykens valley slope at the Luke Fidler Colliery. At three o'clock a. 111. the men reached the dead bodies of Anthony Marckavick and An thony Shttracavish, the miners who struck a feeder of gas, which caused a fall of coal by which they were entomb ed. The bodies were lying prostrate in the bottom of a heading, near No. 13 breast. They were untouched by any coal or rock. The men had evidently been overcome by gas while endeavor ing to escape. While Rev. Powell and Prof. Wm. A. Beers, prominent citizens of Dempscy town, were shooting wild ducks from a boat at Sugar Lake, their craft cap sized, throwing them into the water. Neither of the men could swim, but they caught hold of tbe sides of the boat and held on until discovered by Warren McCleland, who is a man of powerful build and a skilled boatman. He reached them when they were about ready to let go their hold from exhaus tion, and after a tremendous effort got them ashore. Striking statistics are adduced by W. N. l'rcw, chairman of the orchestra committee of Carnegie Institute, to show that the season ot the Pittsburg Orchestra just closed has been remark ably successful. A deficit of but $22. 168.35 is reported and despite the fact that expenses increased $5756.88 and that an individual subscription of $1500 to the soloist fund was not renewed the individual liability of the guarantors has been reduced to $316.70 from $379.97, the assessment of the season, before. The will of Mrs. Sophia Brenz. late of Lansdowne, was placed on record in Media. She bequeaths $5000 to the General Missionary Society of the Ger man Baptist Church, if her eighty-acre farm in Edgmont Township shall bring $500 per acre. If the farm does not bring this price, then she gives to the society one-fifth of its value. She also fives to the Newtown Baptist Church too and to its former pastor, Rev. Jos. L. Sagebeer, the same amount. Four masked men entered the shops of the Keystone Agricultural Works, at Po'.tstown, and after they had succeed ed in overpowering Henry B. Clay, the night watchman, nnd binding his hands and feet they blew open the office safe. The safe did not contain much of value except the account and order books, which they left undisturbed. The rob bers then rifled the pockets of Mr. Clay and secured $3. Portraits of members of several prom inent Quaker families oi West Chester appeared this week in a fashion journal, they being used to illustrate an article on the Quakers. All the portraits rep resent young women arrayed in the gowns, bonnets and shawls of their grandmothers. The appearance of the pictures caused consternation among the young women and they are at a loss to explain how their features came to adorn the journal. Wearied with repeated strokes of pa ralysis, Benjamin M. Worthington committed suicide at his home, in Hulmeville, by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He died an hour or so after the tragedy. Worthington was about '60 years of age, and at one time was proprietor of the Hulmeville Hotel. J. Ffank Condon, for the past twenty years official court, reporter for Blair and Cambria counties, committed sui cide in his office in Altoona by blowing out his brains. His body was not found until to-day. On his desk was a tele gram addressed to his son in Johns town, saying, "Father is dead; come." Sealed letters 10 friends were also found in his desk. Mr. Condon had been in poor health for a long time. He was 47 years of age. The Delaware Unir-n American Methodist Episcopal Conference, at ' their session in Chester, adopted the Twentieth Century Thank Offering plan to raise $100,000, to be divided as fol lows. Fifty thousand dollars for the present indebtedness of churches, $40. 000 for industrial schools, and $10,000 to be used by the publication, department. 'The recent purchase of the Lake Su perior ore mines by the United States Steel Corporation has brought uncx 'pected wealth to many Sharon people, among whom is Hon. Alexander Mc Dowell, clerk of the lower house ol Congress. Mr. McDowell cleared up $200,000 in the deal. . A special train from Bethlehem struck a handcar containing the section gang between Soudcrton and Hatfield, killing Harry Detveiler, a laborer. Two others named Morfet and Ziegler were slight ly injured. There is a sharp curve where tne train struck the car which prevented t'he section men from seeing the approaching train. Ira A. Danner, who, although but 21 years old, has served two enlistments in the United States Army, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Danner, of Alletitown. His death was due to injuries sustained in the ser vice. , Rev. S. Nicholas, pastor ot tele urina tive Methodist Church of Girardville, has resigned to accept a call from the Primitive Methodist Church ai Phila delphia. He will be succeeded by Rev. S. Cooper, of Mount Carpiel. A wing will be erected to the Allen town Hospital. It will cost $35,000 and the expense will be borne by a citizen oi Allentown whose name is withheld. The new addition will be Unvoted to surgical cases. By, the will of the late Dt John Grove, of Philadelphia, $Sono i be queathed to the Church oKjod, at May town. Dr. Grove was a native of May town. While at work on the Coleman saw mill near Sumiuewille, George Beck was caught in the machinery and squeezed to death. George Teets, of Avoca, a driver boy in the Heidelbirg mine, was killed while at work. It fs thought iic was squeezed to death. Thieves blew open the unlocked s-.fe of Follmer Bros, with nitroglycerine at Lewisburg but secured norhing. The Turkish Government has con tracted for another :nisp', altnv.'gh .nothing has been paid ot BCPmint of the cruiser ordered in the United States. The Krupps aie also dunninj the Sul tan to pay tor guns. A riot occurred ntr S Note, Pun jab, on account of tiie plague inspec tion of women.
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